RickinSTL Posted October 23, 2022 Report Share Posted October 23, 2022 Hey y’all.. anyone have experience with refrigerated medicine? My girlfriend has to take a shot once a week, but her medicine has to be refrigerated.. should we contact medical onboard or someone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steverk Posted October 23, 2022 Report Share Posted October 23, 2022 I would contact the special needs department at specialneeds@rccl.com. The chillers in the room don't get cold enough to be called refrigerated, so something special will need to be done RickinSTL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FManke Posted October 23, 2022 Report Share Posted October 23, 2022 14 minutes ago, steverk said: The chillers in the room don't get cold enough to be called refrigerated, so something special will need to be done I agree. They're cool at best Happy Cruising! RickinSTL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloatyBoaty Posted October 23, 2022 Report Share Posted October 23, 2022 My husband has a profile saved with specialneeds@rccl.com and a small medicine cooler is delivered to our room within a couple hours of boarding. asquared17 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fa-li Posted October 23, 2022 Report Share Posted October 23, 2022 You can email the special needs department, but then be prepared to really follow up onboard. They have a "medical cooler" they can put in your cabin that should keep the meds between 36 and 46 degrees. However, not a lot of crew know about them. So just requesting ahead of time may not be enough. If your cabin steward doesn't have the cooler for you, it might be helpful to escalate to guest services or even someone on the medical staff onboard. We had one cruise where the cooler never was found. We fortunately were traveling with a high quality insulated bag and plenty of strong zip locks, and our cabin steward was great about supplying ice several times a day. She also offered to take our medical grade gel packs to the freezer for us, which was helpful when we disembarked and still had travel ahead. Finally, if traveling with this kind of meds is a new thing, you may want to invest in a wireless indoor/outdoor thermometer that allows you to place a sensor with the meds and see the temp without opening the bag or the door. It saves a lot of angst over if the drugs have spoiled. Good luck! KristiZ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloatyBoaty Posted October 23, 2022 Report Share Posted October 23, 2022 Here is the link to the online special needs form: https://www.royalcaribbean.com/resources/guest-special-needs Notes on the page include: In order to provide you with the best accessible cruise experience possible, please submit the Guest Special Needs Form at time of booking but no later than 30 days prior to sailing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjcruisers Posted October 23, 2022 Report Share Posted October 23, 2022 When our son was on medication needing refrigeration, didn’t know about making a request for a medicine cooler. What we did was bring a few zip lock bags and got the room steward to bring us ice. Filled the bags up and threw them in the fridge. Not only kept the meds cold, but everything else we stuck in there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qeytondude Posted October 23, 2022 Report Share Posted October 23, 2022 We filled out the online form, and fridge was in the room when we got there; easy peasy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted October 24, 2022 Report Share Posted October 24, 2022 Onboard coolers are 50-55 degrees Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKarl Posted October 24, 2022 Report Share Posted October 24, 2022 16 hours ago, smokeybandit said: Onboard coolers are 50-55 degrees do you happen to know the dimentions of this cooler? Would I be tripping over it in a Balcony Cabin or below? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloatyBoaty Posted October 24, 2022 Report Share Posted October 24, 2022 24 minutes ago, BigKarl said: do you happen to know the dimentions of this cooler? Would I be tripping over it in a Balcony Cabin or below? I believe the onboard cooler he's referring to is the "refrigerator" cooler built in to the dressers in the ships that I've been on that is set to 50-55 degrees. If you need something colder, the medicine cooler that you would request from special services is a small tabletop cooler - maybe 8"x8"x14"? Sits on top of the dresser or desk easily or wherever you can reach a plug for it. BigKarl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RafaellaCG Posted October 25, 2022 Report Share Posted October 25, 2022 Please be careful with ice bags, medication freezing is as much a risk as overheating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowen Posted October 25, 2022 Report Share Posted October 25, 2022 My dad has to have refrigerated medicine for his MS. They just pack it in a cooler pack for the trip to the port (or airport), then transfer it to the fridge once on board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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